gréasach
Irish
editEtymology 1
editFrom gréas (“ornamental work; ornament, ornamentation; decorative design, pattern, figure; needlework, embroidery”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
editgréasach (genitive singular masculine gréasaigh, genitive singular feminine gréasaí, plural gréasacha, not comparable)
Etymology 2
editFrom Old Irish grésach (“lasting, perpetual, constant, habitual”, adjective). Compare de ghréas (“habitually, continually, perpetually”).
Adjective
editgréasach (genitive singular masculine gréasaigh, genitive singular feminine gréasaí, plural gréasacha, not comparable)
Declension
editDeclension of gréasach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | gréasach | ghréasach | gréasacha; ghréasacha² | |
Vocative | ghréasaigh | gréasacha | ||
Genitive | gréasaí | gréasacha | gréasach | |
Dative | gréasach; ghréasach¹ |
ghréasach; ghréasaigh (archaic) |
gréasacha; ghréasacha² | |
Comparative | níos gréasaí | |||
Superlative | is gréasaí |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
gréasach | ghréasach | ngréasach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gréasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “grésach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language